Grosso v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Writ of error removing from Essex Circuit a judgment, sustaining a demurrer to declaration.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Magie, J.
The declaration demurred to charged the de- . fendant company with the immediate killing of plaintiff’s-*318wife by the negligence of its employees. It sought to recover •damages for the loss of her society and assistance in plaintiff’s domestic affairs, and for money laid out by him in burying her. The case thus presented does not come within the provisions of the statute of March 3d, 1848 (Rev., p. 294), or any •other statute. It is of novel impression in this state, and the demurrer raises the question whether, apart from the authority…
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